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MASON'S

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No. 21,24

Hongkong Daily Press.

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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

Kowloon... Yaquati... Abstin Taipo

Praling. Sheangshui

TIME-TABLE.

ملاية

WEEK DAYS

Noo

Dep, 4,45

9.15 10.30-11.40 12,00

||4,35 |5,29|7,10

Dop.: 6,50

9.24 10.39

12.09

9.81 444 338 719

Dep. 7,09

9.36 10.51

18.31

2.49 14.30 (3.53 7.91

Dep.7.18 9.40 11.04.

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2.56 5,09 604|7,44

Thipo Market

Dep. 7.21 9.53 11.08

11.98

3,00 533 8,087,48

...Dep. 7,39 10.03 111,15

12.49

Dap. 7.38 10,07 11,29

14,52

3.115.24 6.19 7,58 3.15 5,286,233,03 3.21 6,348,299,09

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P.M.

M.Dep. 7,31

Dap. 7,91

8.06 10.88 11.40 158 8.12 10.45 11.47

Shamehan

Shumobin

Shanngehal

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i Kowloon...

Arr. 7,141 10,1811,29 12.20 1938

Dep. 7.32 8.16 10.49 11,51

Dep 7,421

9.26 10.59 12.03

Dep. 7.48 8,50 11,041 19.07 Dep. 7591 8.49 11.17 18:21)

..Dop. 8,19

8,551129; 12,83

1.1.

6.19 6.06 520635 5,94 6,39 5.54 6.29

9.00 4.17 3,07 424 9.11 log 8.914.38 3.25 4,42 3,58 56 5.51 3,30 6,088,09-659-

5.88

6,33

6.48

Art, 8,20 9,03 11,87 12,411 2378.55 B.10 17:06

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

1.X. P.M

WEEK DAYS.

YAK. AM. STATIONS, Fanling ...Dep. 7.45 11,80 2.00 6.25 Shatankok...Art, 8.40 12.95 8,15 7:20

SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS,

STATIONS

A.M. – P.M. 7.M. PAL Foaling . Dep. 7,45 11.30 9.20 6.25 Bhataukck.A 8.40 12.25 415 7,20

STAZIONE,

WEEK DAYS.

AM

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Shatankok...Dep. 6.30 10.15. 105 5.00 Fanling ....Arr. 7.25 11.10 2.00 565. SUNDAYS AND PUBLIO HOLIDAYS,

AK, AK, IM. STATIONS.

IX.

Bhatackor...Dep. 6.30 10.15 205 5,00 Faoling AT 795, 11.10 3.00 6.55

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PHILOSOPHY OF LOCAL SUCCESS.

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WARRANTS OUT FOR "MISS ANGELINA MURRAY."

LEGACY STORY.

The London police are trying to arrest a middle-aged woman who has exploited an original. trick as the expense of numerous persons both in London and the provinces during the past few months. Warrants have been issued in no fewer than 15 different towns.

evening upon persons who some years be

The woman usually calls late in the fore have lost a relative or upon persons who have been close, friends of some one deceased...

It was a poor man who made one of the spectacular success. But it is a safer best aphorisms on riches. He said "One game to play. Compared with the can tell what the Almighty thinks of former method it is betting after having riches, by observing to whom He has drawn to, a kicker, as compared with given them."

Peerish, perhapa; but bluing on a busted. fush. Choose an certainly palliative Similarly it was a easy character. It is heartbreaking to notoriously unsuccessful journalist who, see how many people of the best inten- after having passed the fateful age of tions, but the meagreat talents, choose forty without any prospect of prosperity, that most difficult of all characters the wrote the standard English exposition of snob. Nature does not produce more The Qualifications necessary to Success than one real saob per community per in Life. No really successful man would | generation. When he is produced he have had time to write the title. With commands everybody's admiration, and She has used various names, but i such auspices a director to fortune is his own price. Heaps of people who have recent cases has called herself ise not bound to fail, even although he him quite enough talent to do exceedingly Angelina Murray, and has given her self has never got far enough along the well in the comparatively simple but address as either No. 1 or 3. Dock Post road to buy a bank share, or be favoured well paid role of toady, ruin their pros-ice, Hull or Liverpool, where she has with an overdraft

peers in a hopeless effort to all the stated she is the sub-postmistress. master part of snob. It is important to remember this in Hongkong; because it is often foolishly supposed that their is something in the air here which makee snobbery easy.

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morning. She will, however, be back in London later in the week, and suggests a meeting at the insurance company's offices.

THE LIE OF THE LAND. As the desire to get on is not always equally mated with a readiness to work, we may as well disregard the routes which require that sort of transport.

A FEW OF THE EASIER Let us examine other features of the country. Among people who have always

CHARACTERS.-- stayed at home, the general idea is that Stock characters are easiest, and pay failure in your own village is the best best. The typical Irishman, Scotchman, beginning for success in the colonies Englishman, or American can be played Hence the disjunctive salutatios Go to by anybody, of any nationality You Hongkong. But that is a vulgar error. may be horsey, horticultural, piscatorial, when the whole tale has been told, and It is usually fairly late in the evening Among other amiable features, Hong- cathedral, or regimental. But you must she then states she will have to get home, to gather the discards. Sometimes this is better to be a pussyfoot, even, than attitude has the appearance of a to be pusillanimous. A confirmed mange collusion between imposture and credu hater is something more than a mere lity, and as such is part of the peculiar man. If you insist on being yourself psychology of the East. "It is a frame of you are probably so full of contradictions mind which guarantees a transient or and complexities, that nobody can ever apparent success to him who, having left know you. But if you take on one of his country for his country's good, perpe-these parts, you at once become a land- trates the imposture of having come to mark, recognizable even in a Peak fog. Hongkong for China's sake. The pro- What might be called the tame agitator cess, as applied to some flagrant fraud, is a good part, Propagate the desir- is rather like the one which we are told cruel little boys, in less civilized gene- rations, sometimes applied to frogs. The motive, in both cases, is the desire to get up a little excitement. There would be no fun in blowing up balloon if they never burst. There would have been no fun for Hal and Poins, and Mistress Page and Mistress Ford in taking Falstaff at his own estimate, as a bold highwayman, a hero and a sheik," if they hadn't been fully aware that he was a coward and a silly fat old man."

ability and importance of something which is so utterly unnecessary and im- practicable that even the circumlocution. office will love you: police detention of muzzled jelly bugs, a government air. service to Fanling, publication of statis ties of the incidence and mortality from Bengkong Foot, Homq, Rule for Kow. idon. But even if you find yourself a tremendous success as the tame agitator, resist all temptation to be drawn into the associated role of martyr for the people's rights.. Having chosen a part stick to it, and get yourself known by ít.

HONGKONG'S A STAGE.

"You may protest that all this has no

like

She then leaves the house, siter giving her name and address on a piece of paper. Within another ten minutes she returns and asks if she has left her bag containing her money and return half railway ticket to Hall or Liver poo, the fare of which would be two or three pounds. Usually search is made, but never has the bag been found. She then suddenly recalls that the bag has been left at the solicitor's, who very naturally cannot be communicated with at that time of night.

In many cases the victim." offer her sufficient money for her fare, and then she promises to return the following day. 8ix Times a Week.

Mins Angelina Murray is never heard of again.

The police estimate that on an average the woman works this trick five or six times a week, which would realize over £90 for her.

In view of the number of complaints of the activity of this woman, Scotland Yard has circulated her description. She is stated to be

Aged from 50 to 55, 5ft 6in..to 6ft. 9in. in height, complexion florid or very fresh, blue eyes, brown hair turning grey, parted in centre, over which ribbon is worn Stcut build, das foot

ed, fairly well spoken, usually dressed in dark red knitted coat and skirt, trimmed with black braid on edges, long dark mixture coat, fur collar, wears various kinds of hats, and carries

leather bag with fringe

A HYPOTHETICAL, CASE.

If...a beachcomber blew in to-morrow and assumed the airs and title of a Duke, it is certain that he would be treated as a Duke and given credit, in the city particular reference to Hongkong, and emporiuma, and at the Peak dinner is equally trac everywhere; that all the parties, aa a Duke, even by people world's a stage. But when Shakespeare who were quite sure he wasn't a Duke, said that, he was thinking of a small and had proved it by looking up the world, a world like Hongkong; or like Peerage. For it is thrilling so to do sixteenth century London; not No deccat man would denounce him. twentieth century London, or any other After a while they'd try to get him to big European community. There's no enter claims as a Prince. That is the use acting a part unless you have the way of the East. It is a working of use of a stage, and the attention of that great artistic principle the suspen-An audience. In Europe to-day only at sion of disbelief. Filling the fraud's flush handfull of men have an audience and a is & form of play-acting in which the stage, and their tenure of it is so un- general public can take part both as certain that few find it worth while actors and as audience. Some boost the setting up a part unless they are sure impostor because they feel that, although of being perpetuated in the movies-- Bus he is an impostor, the world would be here there is a stage and an audience for a much finer place by forgetting the all, and for as long as we care to ase ruffian port if allowed to get drunk in a nature of impostors. They are romantic. in fact there are several stages; cissy shirt" and a pair of shorts; and Others are humourists. They take part and it is important to choose the right the other half.could equally well play in the game for the fan of the catase. To make a success of your character the superfine aestheto if allowed to sit trophe. They aid the inflation of re- practise it first on some of the minor among magazines in a silk kimono, and putation for the sake of seeing the in- stages; a tea-room or a botel lounge; pantoufles. That makes character too then bowling green or the bar at cheap. Be your air one of bustling or evitable burst. "I'll procure the fat rogue a charge of foot says Prince volunteer headquarters and finally on of boredom, you must shine as brisk and Henry. When the bubble is pricked the the stage of atages: the Club bar. If smell as sweet as a tank manager. former draw long faces, and conjure a our part is going down at all well, act

CAUTIONS tear; the latter draw broad faces, and it there twice or thrice a week, prefer- coruscate & twinkle. But neither have enthanastic chorus, beginning at those avoided as carefully as impecunig

ably with the support of a small but There is another part which should be been really deceived_”.

hours when the flowing bowl makes acquaintances. It is playing the rich success easy. Once secure recognition man to a wealthy audience. Many who there as having a right to a special come to the colonies in the hope of character, and your firm will soon recog- getting on, make the mistake of begin- nise your right to a special job.

THE MORAL

This long disquisition on a sly trait of colonial psychology is intimately con- 'nected with the question of getting on. It is a chance for even the most hopelessa case. From it we extract the principle "Don't be afraid to impose on people They like it and will help you on for the sake of it. But get out while the going is good." It takes a wise 500 bubble to get off the pipe in time with enough air to float it, but not enough to

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tination of the fruits of success to put Physique counts for a good deal in the up for a month with anything less than choosing of parts. It would be fatuous a house with a temis court, a bungalow to take on the strong silent man, or the at Glek-0, a seven-seater, and a string ed. Chisine under the personal supervision of domineering overlord, if you are only five of ponies. They think they can secure feet six. A better part would be gar-the goodwill of the rich, from which rulous humour, or sentimental idealism, alone all riches flow, by doing from the

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Proprietress. number of very tall men who at present of superior wealth, and you deprive them For the man whose circumstances are control so much of Hongkong's business of their only sure pleasure in your com- not so desperate as to drive him to the and government. Being over six feet pany. Instead of showing them your rash rôle of impostor, there is a milder myself, I know that when we tall men borrowed silver plate, it is better policy method. Unlike imposture, there is no get on, it is rather in spite, than by to display an empty - parse and a full thing diagraceful about it. Pleasant in reason of our physical advantages. An quiver. the practice it is creditable even when other pit-Fall to avoid is the mistake of Almost as bad as an air of having found out. It is the art of being & dressing to suit your part. This is already got on, is the air of not caring character. A character is a more virile, foolish anywhere and fatal in Hongkong. if you never do got on. It is like boping and cosmopolitan version of the village Dressing a párt is a clear, confession of to walk in backwards by pretending to worthy. Having had a village worthy for one's inability to act it adequately. It come out. One sees a lot of it in Hong- an ancestor, greatly facilitates being a is an inferiority complex. If you are a kong, and hopes that it is only assumed character. No young man ought ever to tennis player, let's see you play tennis, character. Becauer- if the British defer- be allowed to leave home without the never mind if you do it in football toge, mination to push a way in the world is} advice "If you want to succeed in the Has not Hamlet been played in plus no longer e living impulse in the East, East be a character." It is not, of course, fours! You may play the part of a this article need mover – have been nearly so exciting as being an impostor. ruthan but it must be done in genteel written; just as without its inspiration It is a rôle in light comedy, rather than neckwear, "After all, half the men who | the; careful-observations which, gre it, high-tragedy. As a lem exacting part, come East now-a-days could take on the material, would never have been collect- it does not achieve such sudden and “[Continued on next column.led and collated.

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